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Printing plate
copper plate Charles I and Henrietta Maria

Object number

LDSAL2022.2.113

Artist/Designer/Maker

Vertue, George - Publisher
van Voerst, Robert - Engraver
van Dyck, Anthony - after

Production date

1634
1742

Material

copper

Technique

Engraving

Dimensions

height: 422mm
width: 576mm

Location

Burlington House - George Vertue Box

Content description

Printing plate with the marriage portrait of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, both standing half-length. Charles I on the right, wearing collar and medallion, and with one hand on the hilt of a sword, and Henrietta Maria on the left, wearing earring and necklace, holding a sprig in one hand, and handing a small wreath to her husband with the other; crown, sceptre and orb on a covered table to the right; curtains in the background to left and right; landscape in the background in the centre; after Anthony van Dyck.

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Filius sic Magni est Jacobi, hæc filia Magni
Henrici, soboles dic mihi qualis erit?
CUM PRIUIL. REG.

Inscription content

Ex Originali
olim in PALATIO SOMERSETENSI

Inscription content

ab Antonio Vandyke Equite depicto 1634
A.D.ni 1742 excudit G. Vertue

References

Reference (controlled)

Betti, Chiara. “Lost Treasures Resurface: The Untold Story of the Society of Antiquaries’ Printing Plates.” The Antiquaries Journal 104 (2024): 304–42. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581524000179.
    Printing plate with the marriage portrait of Charles I and Henrietta Maria, both standing half-length; after Anthony van Dyck. There are several corrections/alterations made with repoussage and visible on the back of the plate
    This plate was engraved initially by Robert van Voerst, and Vertue later reworked it and removed Voerst's name. This is the largest plate ever engraved by Van Voerst, and it was not commissioned by Charles I. The original painting by Anthony van Dyck is now in the Kroměříž Archdiocesan Museum (no. KE 2372, O 406). It was the first double portrait of the royal couple painted by Van Dyck.

    An unfinished proof of the print is in the Sutherland Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

    The plate was given to the Society of Antiquaries in November 1775 by Mrs Vertue.